printsprott
noun,
m.,
root decl.?,
hapax legomenon
Possible Types: plant, plant-part
Last Update: 24.08.2011 08:13
Meanings Last Update: 08.09.2010 09:43
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A: plant
-, reed, Schilfrohr -
B: plant-part
-, shoot, Spross -
B: plant-part
-, twig, Zweig
Comments Last Update: 08.09.2010 10:01
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Comment on (A): -, reed, Schilfrohr
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Comment on (B): -, shoot, Spross
It is possible that this passage is a loose translation 'like sparks on dry twigs, wie Funken im dürren Reisig' (cf. the context) and sprott belongs to sprot 'twig, Zweig. This is supported by the attribute dryge, because sprott would be an adequate translation for 'reed, Schilf' but not for 'twig Zweig' because with the latter the association with an easily flammable material would be missing. Also cf. the glosses to HARUNDINE(M) s.v. →gerd in Li und Ru.
Occurrence Last Update: 15.11.2010 13:27
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Research Literature
BTS:
Toller, Thomas Northcote.
An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Nachdruck der Ausgabe von: Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972.
BT:
Bosworth, Joseph.
An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Ed. by Thomas Northcote Toller. Reprint 1973. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1882.
BW III:
Bierbaumer, Peter.
Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.
OED:
Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 2009. .
Rit:
Lindelöf, Uno Lorenz.
Rituale Ecclesiae Dunelmensis. The publications of the Surtees Society. 140. Durham: Andrews, 1927.
Cf. BTS: "sprot(t) a coarse kind of rush, sprot (v.NED.sprot 2)". BTS provide the meaning of ModE 'sprot' (first record ca. 1600) as recorded in the OED. Equally Lindelöf (n., S.lxxii): "G.[lossator] may have associated (H)ARUNDINE with ARIDUS (?) N.E.D., s.v. sprot (sprat, spart), gives examples only from the New English period."